This project provides high quality training in hospitality and tourism for young women from a highly deprived community. With many fathers in prison and mothers struggling, they have few opportunities to improve their lives. The course includes a two-month placement in good restaurants and hotels; on completion they will be helped to secure a good job. Providing these young women secure employment will provide them a clear route out of poverty and increase opportunities for their whole family.

Urgent funding is required to purchase dry rations, medicines and medical equipments. Additional funds will be used to provide temporary accommodation and help relocating the displaced people.

This project will help 32 Sri Lankan foster parents and adolescents orphaned by the civil war and the 2004 tsunami to gain financial security by starting a new or expanding an existing small business.